Dirty realism is a genre of North American literary fiction, its name coined by the editor Bill Buford of Granta magazine to describe writers who depict the seamier or more mundane aspects of ordinary life in spare, unadorned language. As a sub-category of literary realism it favors plain sentences and unembellished detail over stylistic ornament, letting the flatness of the prose itself carry the bleakness of the lives it describes.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleMidnight Cowboy (1969 film) 1 Defining TraitEconomy with words and a focus on surface description 1 Defining Trait Dirty Realism
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to define a North American literary movement
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characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description
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The 1969 film Midnight Cowboy has been called dirty realism
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Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement.
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Dirty realism is a term coined by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a North American literary movement.
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a sub-set of dirty realism
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